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There are several things that the republicans have done that have caused the throw the bums out mentality. This is the reason why the 2006 sweep of the house and senate took place.
First of all the Republicans were trusted to handle this war with Afghanistan, and it eventually turned into Iraq. With the Republican's lemmings to the sea mentality, and never questioning Bush, as to the validity of his case to go into Iraq. They could have put up a fight to stop Bush from making this grave mistake, but they didn't. They just went along with the war profit gravy train into Iraq led by a White House marinated in oil. Dwight Eisenhower would have never done such a thing in the first place.
Next, the facts of the intelligence were fixed around the policy of the Bush administration, according to the British Downing Street Memo. Bush didn't rely on facts of the intelligence. He made stuff up. There was no Yellow Cake Uranium. There were no mobile weapons labs. Colin Powell resigned because he felt betrayed by the Bush administration, who in turn made him testify, with a little vile of Anthrax, that the intelligence to go into Iraq was a knockout of proof that Iraq was hiding WMD's. When the fact is that we destroyed most if not all of his stockpile of weapons that Ronald Regan probably sold him at the hands of Donald Rumsfeld in the 80's.
Next, the Bush administration has carried on the policy of the Military to deny former servicemen who were Gulf War veterans that Gulf War Syndrome exists. Which is probably a medical side effect from being exposed to detonated biological and chemical weapons that Saddam had back in 1991, when we destroyed their stockpile in the first place. I happen to personally know some of these people, who are afflicted with these medical conditions, so I know this isn't just some liberal crybaby as some of you would like to believe. This is one in a series of things along with Bush cutting the military medical funding for VA benefits. The Republicans were nowhere to be found shouting from the hills that Bush has cut funding to the military VA hospitals. It took a liberal film-maker, to expose the deplorable conditions at Walter Reed Medical Facility. A year before CNN finally broke the story. Bush's love for the military, and veterans is remarkable! And the Republicans did nothing to stop Bush. They just kept in line with other Republicans. The Democratic sweep of Congress, has been stalled by Bush's veto power. So Congress has been left neutered in their ability to stop Bush. They have been left ineffective to get anything done as a hand of Bush's veto.
Next, the Republicans have been trying to get rid of Social Security ever since FDR drafted the New Deal, because it resembles too much of a socialist handout. They have been trying to dismantle it ever since. Capitalism has failed us once again.
And the old saying comes to mind. 'Why does Capitalism always survive? Because Socialism will always swoop in to save it.' Unless you are among the wealthiest 1% in the US, you cannot afford to vote for another corporate tool like John McCain. McCain and Bush are beyond satire...
There. That's better.
I think.